A CLUB-SWINGING FEAT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9315, 15 August 1908, Page 5

A CLUB-SWINGING FEAT.

When Mr Tom Burrows, the clubswinging champion of the world, set out to break his own record at the Opera House, and succeeded in doing it with apparent ease, many people who saw him wondered how it was done. At the Alexandra Hall to-day, however, a boy of fifteen is attempting to break his own record of 17hrs 31min, and at noon was going on with every prospect of accomplishing the feat. Master Gordon Weir, a lad who is not yet fifteen and who weighs somewhere about seven stone, began to swing at five o'clock this morning, and will have to swing until eleven to-night, a period of eighteen hours, to break his own record t by nineteen minutes, the feat that he has set out to dp. He' was " started " By Sergeant Burrows, of the police, and is being watched by a committee including Messrs E. J. Richton, C. Goggin, J. Nettingj L. M'Master, P. Rawson and others, ond Messrs J. Neill and J. Le Sever are in charge of the arrangements. Drs Clayton, O'Brien and Simpson will inspect •"Weir at intervals, and the public will be admitted to the Hall throughout the day and evening. The clubs that Weir is using weigh a little over 2^lb, and he is swinging the regulation uumber of revolutions that Burrows did.